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The Effect of Self-Employment on Income Inequality

Schneck, Stefan - 2018

It is well known that the self-employed are over-represented at the bottom as well as the top of the income … distribution. This paper shifts the focus from the income situation of the self-employed to the distributive effects of a change in … increase in the proportion of self-employed individuals in the labor force increases income polarization by tearing down floors …

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Self-Employment Differentials among Foreign-Born STEM and Non-STEM Workers

Cai, Zhengyu; Winters, John V. - 2017

This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine the previously overlooked fact that foreign STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) graduates have much lower self-employment rates than their non-STEM counterparts, with an unconditional difference of 3.3 percentage...

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Self-employment as a stepping stone to better labour market matching: a comparison between immigrants and natives

Ulceluse, Magdalena - 2018

The paper investigates whether self-employment represents a way to reduce overeducation and improve labour market matching, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012, and controlling for a list of demographic characteristics and...

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Is Self-Employment for Migrants? Evidence from Italy

Brunetti, Marianna; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2023

Using a unique Italian dataset covering the period 2004-2020, we assess the immigrant-native gap in entrepreneurship and investigate channels behind it. The data allows us to account for many observable characteristics as well as for risk aversion, which is usually not observed, yet crucial for...

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Is the future of work childless? Self-employment and fertility

Gonçalves, Judite; Martins, Pedro S. - 2019

The growth of self-employment and in particular gig work may explain part of the declining fertility rates observed in many countries. This study examines this question drawing on longitudinal data to compare women’s fertility, proxied by maternity leave uptake, when self-employed or wage...

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Motherhood, Migration, and Self-Employment of College Graduates

Cai, Zhengyu; Stephens, Heather M.; Winters, John V. - 2019

Women face unique challenges in starting and running their own businesses and may have differing motives to men for pursuing self-employment. Previous research suggests that married women with families value the flexibility that self-employment can offer, allowing them to balance their family...

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Bottom incomes and the measurement of poverty and inequality

Hlasny, Vladimir; Ceriani, Lidia; Verme, Paolo - 2020

measures. It finds that the main source of negative disposable incomes is negative self-employment income, and that high tax …, or even better, than other households in terms of material wellbeing. By contrast, zero-income households are found to be …

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